Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them.

The locations of the castles or principal towns of the nation, as noted in Van Curler's Journal, has given rise to considerable discussion, particularly in regard to the locatio...

Much-Hattoos, a hill so called in petition of William Chambers and William Sutherland, in 1709, for a tract of land in what is now the town of New Windsor, and in patent to them...

[FN-3] The Journal locates the place at Lat. 42 deg. 18 min. This would be about five miles (statute) north of the present city of Hudson. "But," wrote Brodhead, "Latitudes were...

Ponkhockie is the familiar form of the name of the point, cove or landing-place on the south side of Kingston Point. It is from Dutch _Punthoekje,_ meaning, "Point of a small ho...

Arackook, Kachawaweek, and Oghgotacton are record but unlocated names of places on the east side of the Wallkill, by some presumed to have been in the vicinity of Walden, Orange...

Mattasink, Mattaconga and Mattaconck, forms of names given to certain boundmarks "of the land or island called Mattasink, or Welch's Island," Rockland County, describe two diffe...

[FN-1] Williams wrote in the Narraganset dialect _Qussuck,_ stone; _Qussuckanash,_ stones; _Qussuckquon,_ heavy. Zeisberger wrote in the Minsi-Lenape, _Ksucquon,_ heavy; _Achsun...

Minisink, now so written and preserved as the name of a town in Orange County, appears primarily, in 1656, on Van der Donck's map, "Minnessinck ofte t' Landt van Bacham," which...

She'kom'eko, preserved as the name of a small stream which rises near Federal Square, Duchess County, and flows thence north to Roelof Jansen's Kill, was primarily the name of a...

Mannhonake, the name of Gardiner's Island--"called by the Indians Mannhonake, [FN] and by us the Isle of Wight"--means, "Island place or country," from _Munnohhan,_ "Island," an...

Wawarasinke, so written by the surveyor as the name of a tract of land granted to Anna Beake and her children in 1685, has been retained as the name of a village situate in part...

Narrioch was given by the chief who confirmed the title to it in 1643, as the name of what is now known as Coney Island, and _Mannahaning_ as that of Gravesend Neck. (Thompson's...

The place to which the name was applied in the deed of 1658 seems to have been an open tract between the streams named, presumably a field lying along the Hudson, from the descr...

Manhattan, now so written, does not appear in the Journal of Hudson's exploration of the river in 1609. On a Spanish-English map of 1610, "Made for James I," and sent to Philip...

[FN] The word _Chippe_ or _Shappa,_ means not only separate, "The separate place," but was employed to describe a future condition--Chepeck, the dead. As an adjective, _Chippe_...

Yaphank, Yamphank, etc., a village in Brookhaven, is from Niantic dialect in which _Y_ is used for an initial letter where other dialects employ _L, N_ or _R._ Putting the lost...

Mannepies is quoted by Riker (Hist. Harlem) as the name of the hilly tract or district of Keskeskick, described as lying "over against the flats of the island of Manhattan." It...

Caniade-rioit is given as the name of Lake George, and "The tail of the lake" as the definition, "on account of its connection with Lake Champlain." (Spofford's Gazetteer.) Fath...

Koghkehaeje, Kachhachinge, Coghsacky, now Coxsackie, a very early place name where it is still retained, was translated by Dr. Schoolcraft from _Kuxakee_ (Chip.), "The place of...

Van Curler's description of the castle has been quoted. He did not say that it was palisaded, but he did call it a "fort," which means the same thing. Rev. Megapolensis wrote, i...

Moggonck, Maggonck, Moggonick, Moggoneck, Mohonk, etc., are forms of the name given as that of the "high hill" which forms the southwest boundmark of the Paltz Patent, so known,...

Schenectady, now so written, is claimed by some authorities to be an Anglicism of a Mohawk-Iroquoian verbal primarily applied by them to Fort Orange (Albany), with the interpret...

The locatives of the Indian geographical names which have been handed down as the names of boundmarks or of places or tribes, are properly a subject of study on the part of all...

Oi-o-gue, the name given by the Mohawks to Father Jogues in 1646, at Lake George, to what we now fondly call Hudson's River, is fully explained in another connection. The stream...

The stream rises in the center of Sullivan County and flows to the Delaware. The falls are said to be from sixty to eighty feet in four cascades. (Hist. Sul. Co.) Another writer...

Sachus (Sachoes) 30 Sacondaga 184 Sacrahung 31 Sacut 88 Sagabon-ock 85 Sag-Harbor 85 Saghtekoos 83 Sahkaqua 54 Sam's Point 146 Sanckhaick 65 Sankagag 177 Sankapogh 125 Saponicka...